Trixie Whitley

It was indeed a concert in the Brotfabrik that reconciled Trixie Whitley with Frankfurt again and hopefully erased forever an experience she had to make in a large capacity disco. Because there the full-blooded musician was confronted with the wrong audience and the real fans - in the minority - could hardly improve the mood. "I always wanted to express myself in an honest and authentic way. But I also wanted to leave room in my music for an intellectual development," the Ghent-born musician once said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk.
On the basis of a profound knowledge and, above all, feeling for roots music, the singer and guitarist has been developing her own personal sound since the release of her first EP in 2008. She probably has the blues in her blood thanks to her father Chris Whitley, who passed away much too early. With Daniel Lanois, Daryl Johnson and Brian Blade, she formed the also funk, reggae and Americana-inspired alternative supergroup Black Dub. Her vocals on their joint album were already being praised as particularly soulful. Now Whitley, who shuttles between Belgium and Brooklyn, is catching up on her fall dates. She wanted to take her time finishing her new album, "Lacuna," which she realized with producer Little Shalimar, who also has hip-hop experience. On the single appetizers "Heartbeat" and, most recently, "Touch," Whitley combined her distinctive voice and straightforward lyrics with electronic sounds and hypnotic rhythms to create music that sounds fresh and familiar at the same time, with more than just classic rhythmampersandblues meeting indie rock elements. Lyrics source and more information about this event: https://www.brotfabrik.de/events/trixie-whitley/